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VERMONT  MARBLE  COMPANY 
PROCTOR.  VERMONT 


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Main  Plant  of  Vermont  Marble  Company  at  Proctor.  Back  of  the  mills  is  the  trail 

where  the  sand  buckets  go  over  the  mountain 


A  LITTLE  JOURNEY  TO  THE 
HOME  OF  VERMONT  MARBLE 


Pictures  taken  here  and  there  in  the  Qreen 
Mountain  region  which  show  some¬ 
thing  of  the  development  of 
the  marble  industry 


The  third  printing  ot  a  little  booklet  published  by 
the  Vermont  Marble  Company  in  August,  1922 


Pirtsford  Valley  Quarry  showing  some  of  the  concrete  piers  which 

support  its  outer  walls 

[4] 


Quarry  Channel¬ 
ing  Machine  cut¬ 
ting  out  marble 
blocks  from  floor 
of  quarry 


The  Channeler 
averages  about  150 
strokes  a  minute, 
and  moves  ahead 
one  inch  at  every 
stroke 


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16] 


Corner  of  storage  yard.  West  Rutland,  where  about  12,000  marble  blocks  are  piled 


Electric  Drill,  or 
“Gadder,”  boring 
holes  in  the  chan¬ 
nel  courses  for  the 
wedging  apart  of 
the  marble  blocks 


Wedging  along  the 
lines  of  drill  holes 
to  divide  the 
courses  into  blocks 


[7] 


Section  of  inclined  cable  road  over  which  blocks  are  raised  from  the 
underground  marble  quarries  at  West  Rutland,  Vermont 


[81 


Quarry  Block  with 
derrick  rope  at¬ 
tached  ready  to 
be  lifted  from  its 
bed 


Unloading  Quarry 
Block  at  one  of 
the  storage  yards 


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[10] 


Mill  No.  19,  West  Rutland,  Vermont.  Built  in  1920.  Length  450  feet,  width  140  feet 


[11] 


Interior  of  Mill  No.  19,  showing  steel  framework  and  electric  transfer  track  for  loading 

and  unloading  marble 


Middlebury  Plant 


Center  Rutland  Plant 


True  Blue  Mill 


Alaska  Quarries 


Florence  Plant 

On  these  two  pages  are  illustrated 
some  of  the  plants  which  are 
manned  and  operated  by  the 
Vermont  Marble  Company. 

These  combined  shops  and  mills 
are  fed  by  the  output  from 
seventy-five  quarries;  they  send 
out  approximately  1,000,000  cubic 
feet  of  marble  every  year.  They 
are  equipped  with  the  best  ot 
modern  machinery  and  linked 
together  by  railways  and  power 
lines.  These  pictures  with  the 
figures  that  follow  tell  their 
own  story  of  the  expansion 
and  development  of  the  marble 
industry. 


S wanton  Works 


[12] 


Albertson  Works 


Manchester  Works 


Floor  space  of  shops  and  mills,  27 
acres 

Grades  and  varieties  of  marble  pro¬ 
duced,  50 

Deepest  quarry,  over  300  feet 

Quarrying  machines,  218 

Gang  saws,  436 

Rubbing  beds,  112 

Polishing  machines,  90 

Turning  lathes,  26 

Pneumatic  tools,  450 

Hydro-electric  power  generated, 
12,000  H.  P. 

Annual  output  of  quarry  blocks,  21,000 

Weight  of  average  quarry  block,  15 
tons 

Largest  block  ever  quarried,  63  tons 

Land  owned  by  the  Company  in  con¬ 
nection  with  its  marble  business, 
26,500  acres 


West  Rutland  Plant 


Danby  Quarries 


[13] 


[14] 


In  the  Shops  at  Proctor,  showing  marble  cutters  at  work 


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[16] 


Crating  for  shipment  the  eighteen-ton  marble  bowl  of  the  Scott  Memorial  Fountain,  Detroit 


Aerial  Tramway 
which  brings  sand 
into  Proctor  mills 
at  the  rate  of  500 
pounds  every  28 
seconds 


At  the  top  of  East 
Mountain  where 
the  two-mile  tram¬ 
way  leads  down  to¬ 
ward  the  sand  pit 


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[  18] 


Hydrating  Machine  in  Lime  Plant,  for  converting  quick  lime  into 

water-treated  lime  powder 


[19] 


Falls  and  Power  House,  Proctor,  with  a  generating  capacity  of  over  3,000  H.  P 


[21] 


Village  Square,  Proctor,  with  Municipal  Memorial  and  Sutherland  Club  in  the  foreground 


[  22  ] 


Memorial  Library,  Proctor 


[23] 


The  Proctor  Hospital 


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COLUMBIA  UNI', 


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